Dialogue For Practice

A=Lucy
B=Mark

A: Look at Sandra! She’s a plain fashion
plate（讲究穿着的人）. She always dressed to the nines（穿得特别漂亮）.

B: Yeah. She’s a clotheshorse（讲究穿着的人）. She buys the most expensive clothes.

A: She married a man filthy with dough（很有钱的人）. She can live pretty（享清福）with him all her life.

B: It becomes a fashion for girls
to marry rich people. And Sandra’s husband must be a fat cat（富翁）.

A: Yeah. he’s rolling in money（很有钱）. He has money to burn（钱多得几乎花不完）, you
know? He’s been making fast bucks these years.

B: That’s for sure, or Sandra wouldn’t
tolerate living with such an old man.

A: One day when we were at a dance,
she said that she wanted to have a good talk with me.

B: She’s up to no good（不会干什么好事的）, I suppose. What did she say to you?

A: She said that she wanted me to
live like a rich lady. She urged me to marry a rich man, too. And she was
going to introduce a rich guy to me.

B: What did you say? Did you fall
for her fast talk?（花言巧语）

A: Of course not. I could see through（看透）her. I am not her sort（不是她那号人）, I told her.

B: Many girls like her are dreaming
of （梦想着要）living with a fat cat. Some would even marry
a man old enough to be her father. It’s a strange thing.

A: Nothing surprising. Many people
are after（追求）nothing but bucks.

B: But money doesn’t mean everything,
though it’s not convenient without it.

A: You’re right. Many people believe
that money makes the mare go（有钱能使鬼推磨） also unmakes
its makes（钱能毁掉挣钱的人）. To my surprise, Sandra seems to be very satisfied
with her life. There’s even a sense of pride（一种骄傲感，得意感） on her face. She’s walking on airs（得意洋洋的）, sometimes.

B: She may think she is in fat city
a fat cat, but she does have her misery.

A: God knows. No matter how she seems
to be, I do not envy her life. And it sometimes makes me feel sick, too.

B: But a girl like Sandra also seems
to have many fellow travelers. They hang together and go out together, as
if they were living the happiest life.

A: Birds of a feather flock together（物以类聚）. But I don’t look up to（看不起）them. And many people think light of （看不起）them, too. I
prefer a simple life than one that is frowned upon（为人所唾弃的）.

B: I don’t have a good opinion of（对……没有好感）these people, either. They are carefree to a
fault.

A: Yes. They’re money-mad to a fault.
They must have another think coming（大错特错）sooner or later.

B: Unfortunately, they think they
are on the gravy train（机遇好）. They can’t
see the writings on the wall（看不到危险信号）.

A: They are bound to（一定会）curse their own fate, though they may think they are happier than other
people.

B: Many young girls don’t see the
point（看不到这一点）. They envy them. They drool over（眼馋）their
wealth, and they are trying to live a life like theirs.

A: They will get the fickle finger
of fate, too. Ill set, ill get（恶有恶报）.

B: Older people say that young people
like to fiddle with their life. Can’t be truer, you know?

A: Some young girls are plain fiddling
with anything. They even fiddle with the idea of living like fighting cocks(生活的特别阔)without making the least effort.

B: They can’t be more wrong（大错特错）. Nothing comes so easily.

A: That’s right. Everything has a
price（有个代价）. And they should know there’s always something
to pay（不妙的东西）for their ill lust.

B: I don’t know why bucks have such
a great charm（很大的诱惑力）that a great many girls are after nothing else.

A: They are only after those who are
filthy with dough. They think rich people are the only source of their happiness.

B: But many people that are filthy
with dough don’t think they are truly happy. There’s always some empty feeling（空虚感）deep inside them.

A: You hit the nail on the head（把话说到点子上）. Filthily rich people do have their share of
worries. They are not as happy as many other people think.

B: If a young girl marries herself
off with （把自己嫁给）a rich man, you bet she is just trying to make
a bit of the filthy（钱）.

A: Making a bit of the filthy? Well,
rich people should thank their lucky stars if a girl is only content to make
a bit of the filthy. There’s almost no end to their lust for（贪婪）bucks.

B: I know of such an ambitious girl.
Her name is Sally. She was living with a sugar daddy（用好处骗少女的老头子）for two years and she thought she became the envy of other
girls. But she couldn’t be more wrong. And soon she was finished. She was
murdered.

A: Such things happen so often. I’ve
heard about a man who was living with a girl about thirty years younger than
he. He thought he could be the envy of other men. But soon he was murdered
and the girl got much of the filthy.

B: Some happiness is long-lived（长命的），and some so-called happiness is but a
flash in the pan（昙花一现）. Some girls know what this sort of happiness
means.

A: They should have a rude awakening（如梦初醒）that happiness built on bucks won’t last long.

B: You’re right. Upright people don’t
crave（渴望）that sort of happiness, though it might be tempting
to others.

A: The thing is that some men like
to be at the beck and call of（惟某人的命是从）girls of
easy virtue（轻浮的女子），and some girls like to eat dirt（忍辱）in
order to get the filthy.

B: That’s true. Some rich men like
to show off（显示）their wealth. They lose no opportunity to seduce（勾引）a girl who is readily in their service.

A: Yeah. Some rich men splash their
money about （挥霍）like anything just to flex their muscles.

B: Some people are easily flimflammed.
They can’t see through（看透）them.

A: Maybe they are still wet behind
the ears（太没经验）.

B: They are blinded with bucks. Blind
people are more easily conned（被骗）, of course.

A: Sure. Many people, including men
and women, can be easily ripped off（被骗）.

B: If someone tries to get in with（套近乎）you, you may rise to the bait（上钩）,
too.

A: I don’t know. At least nobody can
fool me so far. I’m always on the watch out（警惕）for
these people actually.

B: Don’t boast. Nobody can make such
a bet（打这样的赌）.

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End of Part 21

To
be continue.................................................................